Amazing photos from 1970s show actress Melanie Griffith, 14, lounging by the pool and playfighting with huge African LION her family adopted from founder of the Church of Satan
The intimate set even show her sharing a bed with Neil, and seeming carefree even as he grabs at her legs
Griffith's mother - starlet Tippi Hedren - and her then-husband Noel Marshall, a Hollywood Agent, are also shown
Hedren casually uses Neil as a pillow while she reads the news - while Marshall puts up with the lion as he types
The family adopted Neil from Anton Lavey, High Priest of the Church of Satan, who called the beast Togar
Lavey, a former lion tamer, had kept him in his San Francisco apartment, but authorities told him he couldn't stay
Neil inspired them to make a film - Roar - about the majestic beasts, which ended up being a box office flop
Melanie Griffith, aged just 14, leaps into the swimming pool in her Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, home as she playfights with her enormous pet lion, Neil
There is something wild about actress Melanie Griffith's upbringing.
As this incredible series of photographs shows, while her peers were growing up, fighting with their parents and doing everything else a normal teenager does, the 14-year-old Griffith had an extra influence at home - her enormous, live-in pet lion.
Pictured in 1971 lounging by the pool, playfighting, and even in bed together, Melanie and Neil, as the hulking African big cat was known, can be seen sharing a touching bond.
Neil came to live with the family in bizarre circumstances, after they adopted him from Anton Lavey, High Priest of the Church of Satan, who was told he could no longer keep him in his small San Francisco apartment.
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